Stephen Osborne
Stephen Osborne is editor of Geist magazine.
Stories by Stephen Osborne
Scandal Season
Go ahead. Indulge in a little corruption with that lunch and coffee.
The Pleasure of Reading Outdoors
Devouring, for example, a brine soaked Agatha Christie mystery while cleaving the Georgia Strait.
His Classroom Is Now a Hot Dog Stand
Let Mehrab Arbab serve you a smokie as he explains how killing squads, and the CIA, put him here.
The Banff Protocols
Writers, DNA, the end of time, and two visits to the Rocky Mountain retreat, 14 years apart.
Olympic Visions, Fading
Three months after Canada's 'defining moment' began, I summon what memories I can, and end up in Nepal.
The Portrait King
Yousuf Karsh's holy icons. A speed-read book review from Geist magazine.
Exotic World, Vancouver
Bugs! Baboons! Unknown tribesmen! I keep going back.
Simulating People
Brian Howell's celebrity mimics make you look twice.
Hospital for the Mind
Memories of Coquitlam's 'insane asylum.'
An Elegy for Althea
The life and death of my accidental pet.
The Poem and the Poppy
Reading 'In Flanders Fields.' And choosing to wear the flower.
A Peace Refuge Struggles to Survive the Tsunami
The Butterfly Garden, home to child victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war, reaches out to Canadian friends.
Kids Setting Fires
A struck match sparks memories of a dry day, long ago, above Kamloops.
Photography in a Blown up World
Work by Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian-Iranian photojournalist murdered in Tehran last summer, is part of a big, bold, valiantly vexing new exhibit in Vancouver.